I… You know what, I’m bookmarking this for future reference

I think we might as well declare Alpha Protocol the best game of all time. Ok joking, but that dialog system, damn how good was that

Painkiller was definitely designed after the first Quake. As in, people who were playing Q1 for close to a decade because nothing else came close, loved Painkiller. If you were someone who just wanted to try out multi… Lol good luck, you lvl1 villager against lvl998 bosses.

There’s also a spiritual successor made by the same people (more or less), Armed & Dangerous.

Nobody can hate that game. Damn that was gold. I believe it’s well beloved, tho not widely remembered

I believe Jim Sterling is a fan of that

I totally do have a mecha bug. I only have an Android TV to emulate on so that’s only enough for the first AC but I might give it a shot.

Just a bit above I was praising Watch_Dogs. One of the highlights of that game (or the DLC, dunno anymore) were VR side missions, including one riding a Godzilla-sized mecha spider. Good stuff.

Watch_Dogs was my first platinum on PS3. Everyone was shitting all over the game due to the PC port controversy, but I really enjoyed it. Huge city, different environment, actually good on-foot movement unlike in GTA games, and toooooooons of side stuff to do.

And oh dear, all the hacking stuff was such fun. Yes it was all just one button, but everything was well implemented. The amount of personal details you could pull from phones was amazing. I kept doing it all the time and it wasn’t until near the end of the game that they started repeating.

And the trademark unique Ubisoft multiplayer. Shame it didn’t have full-blown online mode, I can see myself getting lost in it.

Yea great game. Didn’t deserve all the hate unrelated to its actual accomplishments.

The DLC… Bad Blood I think? Was even better.

I can’t emphasize enough how cool some of those VR side-missions were. Some would qualify as fun standalone indie games on their own.

Lost Planet was lovely. Had it on PC (was my first 5€ Steam purchase) but after I abandoned that, I missed the game. Got it for PS3, unfortunately that port was horrible.

Maybe my memory doesn’t go quite as far. But still, I believe adblockers didn’t take off in such a huge ways until we’ve seen all those popups, malware and other shit on a massive scale.

You can’t have a default server unless someone is ready to pay for it. (Idk how Mastodon does it.)

What I’d do is:

1. have every instance list its most prevalent topics/communities/interests (technology, games, communism, memes…)

2. when the user is signing up, have them select their interests

3. try to find the ideal match. Let the user override if they want to, perhaps let them know if the community is tiny, requires approval etc, but other than that just show a “suggested instance: example.org, change link”

There was the original idea of microtransactions, where you could buy some credit, say $10, and every time you read an article, the author would get fraction of a cent. Or you’d need to manually approve it, such as with a like.

Of course companies saw a good idea and ran it into the ground, so now microtransactions mean something very different, and in their stead there are subscriptions for everything.

The first big problem was malware in ads (and web in general). This has caused people to install adblocks on their parents’ and friends’ devices.

Then there were the annoying ads: autoplaying videos, popups and other shit. This has caused a lot of normies to install adblockers themselves.

Then the privacy concerns, where even basic users notice that they look at a product on one store and now the recommendations follow them everywhere.

But the marketing companies keep pushing, and the OS providers like Google, MS and Apple keep restricting what you can install on your machine, this is a full-on war between users and the big tech.

Nobody was complaining about small banner ads. But they just have to keep pushing and break things. It’s like with banks, or mythological creatures - insatiable.

“Let us demonstrate”

I can’t take care of myself, how would I care of an animal?

But I have babysit… Sitted? Babysat? Babyshat? A kitten, and dang he grew on me. So I kinda want one, but… It’s just not for me.

As for dogs, family had two dogs and while Iiked them, neither liked me back as much as everyone says dogs do. I’ve been lied to. And I’m not one for walking. So if anything, more of a cat person then.

I prefer formuladank personally but idk if I’d be welcome here